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NEW INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL APPROACH,
METHODS, TOOLS AND WAYS OF TEACHING THE NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN HISTORY IN SEEC Distinguished Readers, We are pleased to present you the Third Issue of the Newsletter of the Project: “National Histories in South-Eastern Europe and History of a United Europe”. Our previous issue provided you an overview of the First Training Session, developed in Lugoj, while this issue will focus on the Second Training Session, which took place in Timisoara. Some of the topics discussed during this second training module, where as follows: The tematic workshops deployed after each session of lecture, aimed to put into practice the newly acquired knowledge and to adapt participants with the new theoretical and methodological approaches focused during the training. During the workshops, various debate methods were used (such as “Karl Popper” or the “Parliamentary method”), in order to improve the participants’ abilities qualities in arguing adapted to the main discussed issues. The participants were also challenged to identify new arguments for or against the proposed solutions. The workshops were designed to stimulate the improvement of the teaching/learning techniques and develop new innovative ways of integrating/disseminating the information on Europe and its institutions/history. Our event enjoyed of the presence of some distinguished professors, such as Prof. Florian Bieber, Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Nationalism Studies Program of the Central European University, Budapest (Hungary) and Prof. Vito A. D'Armento from the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Lecce, Italy and Vice-President of European Society of the Ethnography of Education (SEEE). Also, as our project has a concrete European dimenssion, we invited Mr. Joaquim Pinto-Da-Silva, Expert of the European Commission in Brussels, a well-known specialist in civil society organisations and exchanges in Candidate and Associated Countries. The Romanian trainers were Drd. Corneliu Berari, currently completing his PhD at University of Munich, Germany, and also Civic Education Project Fellow Research in Romania and Mrs. Ildiko Pataki, Associate Consultant to the Center Education 2000+, within the Soros Organisations Network in Romania. The current issue presents short summaries of the lectures given by Prof. Florian Bieber and Prof. Vito D'Armento, and also offers for consideration the contributions of some of the foreign participants. A short press release reflects the media coverage of our event in Timisoara. Thank you in advance for your interest on our initiative and feel free to contact the editorial board to the e-mail address: eurolink@fx.ro The Editorial Board |